"This textbook contains and describes all the tools one needs to plan and to carry out a simulation study as well as to analyze its results." --J.Wolters, zbMATH Open
"It presents the statistics needed to analyze simulated data and to validate the simulation model. In this edition, several new topics are included as well as a number of new exercises." --Vigirdas Mackevicius, zbMATH Open
1. Introduction 2. Elements of Probability 3. Random Numbers 4. Generating Discrete Random Variables 5. Generating Continuous Random Variables 6. The Multivariate Normal Distribution and Copulas 7. The Discrete Event Simulation Approach 8. Statistical Analysis of Simulated Data 9. Variance Reduction Techniques 10. Additional Variance Reduction Techniques 11. Statistical Validation Techniques 12. Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods